Just a kind request… Or we’ll make your life hell

Rhys Morgan is an intelligent and articulate teenager and someone who impressed many with his work in publicisingStanislaw Burzynski‘s fradulent alternative medicine practices. Last week the University College London Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society were told that they should remove an image, taken from the cover of a Jesus and Mo book, from their Facebook page for their weekly pub meet.

Rhys, along with many others, used the same image on his Facebook page in a show of solidarity for their cause. He left the picture up for about a week, then changed it back and went on with his life.

Until today. Someone who is a Muslim discovered the picture and found it offensive. He politely requested I remove the image –

“… just a kind request to either hide it or completely delete the picture…”

– a request I declined because I do not follow Islamic scripture or rules.

At this point, all hell broke loose and he found himself on the receiving end of a stream of threats and abuse. Then his school stepped in… and threatened to expel him.

So here’s the picture in question:

And I think the head at Rhys’s sixth form college should sit down and think long and hard about why he is so keen to side with a bunch of bullies.